Best way to compress wav files?

[Sonic Angel Knight]

So lately I been trying to start a project. Basically i have a build of SNES9X that supports MSU-1, so if anyone know what that means, you can use cd audio in snes games naively by converting wav to pcm format. The format is basic.

• 16-Bit audio
• sample rate 44100
• 2 channels (Or 1 stereo channel)

Is not some super amazing project to this community, just a personal one, is only to replace music that is all. I managed to successfully do the conversion with with proper looping using some tools, the only problem is the file is like 26MB and is quite big for modern audio files that people use especially since the song isn't over 3 Minutes. I want to be able to get smallest file size possible with good quality and volume. If anyone know of a good way to compress wav files please explain.

 

[Enkuler]

ffmpeg -i input.wav -codec:a libmp3lame -qscale:a 1 output.mp3

edit: didn't see that you wanted pcm, here
ffmpeg -i file.wav -f s16be -ac 2 -ar 44100 -acodec pcm_s16be file.raw

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

ffmpeg -i input.wav -codec:a libmp3lame -qscale:a 1 output.mp3

edit: didn't see that you wanted pcm, here
ffmpeg -i file.wav -f s16be -ac 2 -ar 44100 -acodec pcm_s16be file.raw

What do i do with this information? O_O

 

[Joom]

What do i do with this information? O_O

You use it with ffmpeg.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

You use it with ffmpeg.

How does that help me compress a wave file? O_O